CSFADA | TDA + ALBERTO MARTINEZ + GUIDO VILLALBA + YAGO GARCIA

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CSFADA |  TDA + ALBERTO MARTINEZ + GUIDO VILLALBA + YAGO GARCIA

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  • Project Name: CSFADA
  • Practice: TDA
  • Completion year: 2019
  • Gross Built up Area: 250 sqm
  • Project Location: Kandla
  • Country: Paraguay
  • Structural Consultants: GUILLERMO MASI
  • Photo Credits: LEONARDO MENDEZ
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Excerpt: CSFADA is a sanitary space developed by the architectural firm TDA. There is an interstice between the built mass of the adjacent auditorium and the arboreal landscape surrounding it. These rocks are directly related to the material choice of the proposal, rammed earth. The elements are a podium, three rocks and a cover plane.

Project Description

[Text as submitted by Architect] A creator is a person who finds unknown aspects in something well known. But above all, he is an exaggerator. – Ernesto Sábato. Within the National Preliminary Contest framework called by the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Art of the National University of Asunción, we committed to being exaggerated in Paraguay for a block of sanitary spaces.

CSFADA | TDA + ALBERTO MARTINEZ + GUIDO VILLALBA + YAGO GARCIA
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CSFADA | TDA + ALBERTO MARTINEZ + GUIDO VILLALBA + YAGO GARCIA
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CONCEPT.

Abstraction served as a trigger when we envisioned three rocks strategically placed to define a new space. There is an interstice between the built mass of the adjacent auditorium and the arboreal landscape surrounding it. These rocks are directly related to the material choice of the proposal, rammed earth. The elements are a podium, three rocks and a cover plane.

CSFADA | TDA + ALBERTO MARTINEZ + GUIDO VILLALBA + YAGO GARCIA
© LEONARDO MENDEZ
CSFADA | TDA + ALBERTO MARTINEZ + GUIDO VILLALBA + YAGO GARCIA
© LEONARDO MENDEZ

STRUCTURE.

The challenge of conceiving an artificial rock honestly requires an exhaustive geometric search, a clear, precise and, above all, intelligent process. In Paraguay, the lack of industrialization makes it possible for artisanal work to become a relevant path rather than a limit. How to build a volume of double curvature with rammed earth? How to transgress gravity with a technology developed historically to work vertically and in compression?

Thinking about constructive elements outside their particular context enhances the imagination. The Inuit build igloos with water, and we rethink space with earth from the heart of the Americas. Initially, we proposed a 5-module prefabrication system with a particular geometry and a variety of combinations, with which we managed to build a multiplicity of formal and spatial definitions.

CSFADA | TDA + ALBERTO MARTINEZ + GUIDO VILLALBA + YAGO GARCIA
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CSFADA | TDA + ALBERTO MARTINEZ + GUIDO VILLALBA + YAGO GARCIA
© LEONARDO MENDEZ

MATTER. 

A containment podium of raw stone, load-bearing red earth walls with rammed earth technology and a bare concrete slab. Brutal honesty is assumed from the conception of zero maintenance.

Inside, the light comes from above. Perforations in the slab guarantee dim and pleasant lighting and natural ventilation. The doors are made of low-density wood processed with the over three-hundred-year-old Japanese burning technique called Shou Sugi Ban, allowing accessibility and ventilation. The whole is an example of relevance, optimization of resources, collective intelligence, abstraction and timelessness—a delicate display of exaggeration.

CSFADA | TDA + ALBERTO MARTINEZ + GUIDO VILLALBA + YAGO GARCIA
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CSFADA | TDA + ALBERTO MARTINEZ + GUIDO VILLALBA + YAGO GARCIA
© LEONARDO MENDEZ

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